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Bummerl — zuadraht is!

February 16 2010, by Philipp

Most recently we launched Bummerl — zuadraht is!, an online gaming site for Schnapsen players. As Schnapsen is one of Austria's most traditional card playing games, it was quite a task to capture the true spirit of the game and it's players and incorporate it into the design and game-play experience of Bummerl.

Since it's inception in December 2009, we're at almost 700 users now with a total count of over 50.000 played games. This seems like a quite good growing-rate considering that we launched the game to the open public at the beginning of February 2010. Feel free to sign-up and start playing if you're familiar with the game — it's free! Play a couple of rounds, get to know new friends and make sure to let us know what you think of it.

Without further ado, here some screenshots and a snapshot of our office while we worked on the design for the game.

A screenshot of the community site. This is were players meet and where the usual chit-chat happens:

A screenshot of the Flash game-client. Lots of care has been taken to create a truly authentic Schnapsen gaming experience:

And finally, here's a photo of our office during the design-phase of the game. We usually plaster our walls with huge print-outs of design-elements, sketches or just inspiration:

For the curious of you, here's a tour of what Bummerl offers you and the official Bummerl blog.